Per the official synopsis, the book will pick up with Lucy Weber, the daughter of Black Hammer, twenty years after she took up her father’s mantle as world’s greatest superhero. Now married with children, she has retired, but surburban life “is not blissful. Her marriage is falling apart, her job has reached a dead end, and for mysterious reasons, she hasn’t picked up the hammer in years. But, as her domestic life begins to crumble, the secrets of the last twenty years, and the reasons Lucy really gave up being Black Hammer, begin to resurface, threatening her family, and the peace she has tried hard to find for herself.”
Lemire said in the press release, “‘Black Hammer: Reborn’ is everything we have been building towards for the last several years and it really is the culmination of everything we’ve done in Black Hammer to date. This series has it all; Black Hammer, Skulldigger, Doc Andromeda and Sherlock Frankenstein all play major roles. Oh, and of course lots of Colonel Weird too.”
He added he and co-creator Dean Ormston “are very excited to welcome Caitlin [Yarsky] to the Black Hammer Universe and to the modern adventures of Lucy Weber. Caitlin’s artwork is amazing, the way she does facial expressions and breathes life into the characters is really going to blow fans away.” Ormston said, “I am super excited and a little bit terrified to see Caitlin’s work on ‘Black Hammer.’ Excited because her work is so incredible, and terrified because her work is SO incredible.”
Yarsky stated, “Illustrating for the great Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston is an absolute dream come true. It has been such a joy to depict ‘Black Hammer’s’ emotionally complex characters, relationships and beautifully surreal settings. I’m thrilled and honored to join this legendary team of storytellers. In fact, I’m still pinching myself.”
“Black Hammer: Reborn” #1 will be released on June 23, 2021, nearly five years after the first issue of the original series. It will come with a variant cover by Lemire and Stewart homaging Walt Simonson’s “The Mighty Thor” #337:
In the meantime, the “Black Hammer” anthology, “Black Hammer: Visions,” is slated to run for eight issues, while the miniseries “Barbalien: Red Planet” will conclude with issue #5 next week. Volume 2 and 3 of the “The World of Black Hammer Library Edition” hardcovers will be respectively released on March 24, and June 16.
